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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:34 PM
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CHALLENGE: Name ONE King, Leader, Tribal Elder, etc., EVER to....
Take a one-month relaxation break while prosecuting a War?

Name ONE.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:35 PM
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1. Alexander the Great?
Edited on Wed Aug-03-05 05:39 PM by Bleachers7
Wasn't he partying in Persia while his troops were fighting in Israel? I could be wrong about that.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:36 PM
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2. Nero?
Or Chief Lazy Horse?

:rofl:
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:38 PM
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3. General Custer?
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:44 PM
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8. No custer had time off for disciplinary reasons but he was .....
..... a worker ..... "I will follow those Indians on their ponies over that Hill."

Even though his scouts and officers told him not to.
BTW he had a "gattling (SP ??) gun" but did not take it with him because it
was too much trouble.

Kind of like * not reading his Dad's book about why taking control of Iraq
was very bad idea.
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mazzarro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:39 PM
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4. Shrub** - the little taking a 5 week vacation!
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:39 PM
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5. well -- by the answers so far -- not unless
it was a few thousand years ago -- when we could do little more than club each other senseless.

that should give you SERIOUS pause.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:42 PM
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7. But in those days
"leader" meant the guy up front.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:46 PM
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9. As opposed to
the guy so far in the back he's at the exact opposite point on the earth from where the battle is being fought?

(not literally true, but metaphorically for sure)
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:40 PM
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6. John Adams took a LONG vacation--over a month--during the Quasi War
Of course that was against the French.
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Rufus T. Firefly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 05:47 PM
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10. I know FDR went to Warm Springs a lot...
Don't know if any visits were THAT long. But it was for health reasons, so if he did it's not the same as a lazy fratboy.
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